Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Will Europe Make a Historic Mistake?

"Will Europe Make a Historic Mistake?

As October 3, the start date for Turkey’s membership negotiations approaches, contradictory demands by the European Union (EU) are being made one after the other. On Thursday, the EU issued a counter declaration on Cyprus, ignoring all the legal processes so far.

In fact, Cyprus is just an excuse to slow down Turkey’s accession process or hinder it when necessary. Some member states, France in particular, continue worrying about the negative impact Turkey’s membership would bring. According to the circumstances, if there wasn’t a Cyprus problem, they would definitely have produced another artificial crisis issue."

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